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Just when you
think you got it all figured out, Mother Nature
throws you a curve ball. Simizine is a herbicide
that is used to kill Poa Annua or Annual Bluegrass,
the green weeds you see all over the course. The
Poa on this course has developed a resistance to
this specific herbicide, so all the time and money
spent trying to kill the winter weed have all been
for not. So once we figured this out it started
raining and would not stop long enough to get out a
better herbicide. However, we will get to killing
as soon as we can.
Otherwise the
course is doing well through the winter. The greens
have slowed enough where we only mow about every 10
days and roll and blow the other days. They are not
lightning fast but I have heard no complaints about
speed. I feel that the rough has held up quite well
since it stopped growing. We will apply the
fertilizer that we applied last summer that is the
reason why it is still thick.
Frankly, I can’t
wait till the spring gets here. Not that I don’t
like the winter. We have done some projects like
adding on to the maintenance building and edging
cart paths that we just don’t have time for in the
summer. But, we have all new equipment including
mowers, carts and sprayer that will have a huge
impact on course conditions. I have been able to
get fertilizers and chemicals to apply to the course
that have previously been out of reach. We have
three big projects that will be done in the spring,
including an Azalea bed behind #5, adding irrigation
and Fescue to the hillside on #6 and drainage work
from #8 lake to #5 culvert. |
